The Crown Prince in the Jade Pendant

When Chu Jinyao grew up so old, she never thought that one day she would enter the palace.

Then she thought that she would spend the second half of her life in the palace, and suddenly she felt black.

In fact, it is the best plan to spend half of your life in the palace. With so many princes throughout the ages, how many can successfully become emperors.

Chu Jinyao immediately scolded herself, pooh, what do you think, you can't curse the prince like this!

Just as Chu Jinyao went to Zhao Lanhui's banquet, no one wanted to accompany her into the palace this time. Mrs. Chu originally planned to follow, but the father-in-law who came to deliver the decree said with a smile that the empress only invited five girls.

Well, there is nothing to say now, Chu Jinyao can only follow her father-in-law into the palace with the eyes of everyone taking care of her.

This time Chu Jinyao did not wear a delicate and elegant red dress like the last time she went to Zhao Lanhui. She changed into a light blue dress, the fabric was also low-key and steady silk, trying her best to make herself appear gentle and gentle.

Chu Jinyao followed her father-in-law into the palace, and the carriage of the Changxing Hou Mansion could only walk to the gate of the palace. Chu Jinyao handed over the famous post. After receiving the reply from the palace, she got off the car and walked with her father-in-law.

Walking on the road, she did not dare to look around, but she was also deeply shocked by this. Along the way, Zhu Lubi tiles, carved beams and painted buildings, the eaves are raised high, and on the roof sits a spine beast with its teeth and claws. Guy Gai lowered his head and walked in a hurry. Walking on the palace road, there is no need to deliberately emphasize that Chu Jinyao has already felt a solemn and majestic imperial power pressure.

Here is the entire empire, the supreme center of power.

The official residences and residences of the whole country must not be higher than the Fengtian Hall, and the number of door nails must not exceed the imperial city. Otherwise, it would be a capital crime of robbing the family. Scholars all over the world have been studying hard for more than ten years, just to get into this palace one day.

Chu Jinyao realized this, and a numbness ran across his back. She raised her eyebrows more and more, and walked carefully toward the queen's palace.

After arriving at Kunning Palace, the father-in-law who was passing on the message stopped, turned around and said, "Miss Chu, let's go inside and report to the mother, please wait here for a while."

Chu Jinyao naturally responded: "This is natural, please let your father-in-law please."

The father-in-law who brought Chu Jinyao into the palace smiled at her, flicked the whisk, and then bent over to enter.

And when he left, he didn't believe it for a long time.

Chu Jinyao stood outside the palace with her eyes closed, and there were several groups of court ladies and servants coming and going by her side, but the **** who had reported the letter a long time ago still did not come out.

There was no shade in this place, and the sun hit Chu Jinyao directly, and her forehead was gradually sweating. But Chu Jinyao endured it all the time, she stood still, without moving a step.

Chu Jinyao didn't know how long she waited until the sun shifted, and a maid finally walked out of the magnificent Kunning Palace. The maid is not young, and the corners of her eyes have already climbed up with fine wrinkles, looking like an aunt in charge. The aunt said to her: "Miss Chu, the empress was talking to a few princesses just now. She didn't care about you for a while and kept the girl waiting for a long time. Ms. Chu won't blame it?"

"Why?" Chu Jinyao said quickly, "Since the lady is busy, how dare I interrupt? I just waited outside for a while, and I don't want to do anything."

The auntie in charge smiled, she cast a vague look at Chu Jingyao, and said, "Ms. Chu is really reasonable. The lady is already inside. The girl comes with me."

Chu Jinyao was taken into Kunning Palace by her aunt in charge. Kunning Palace deserves to be the queen's residence, it is extremely wide and spacious. Chu Jinyao was led by someone, walked through the screen, and after a few partitions, vaguely heard a greeting from behind the gorgeous curtain. Chu Jinyao immediately understood that inside was the queen.

Chu Jinyao did not look up, and immediately saluted the people inside: "See Empress Empress, Empress Empress Thousand Years."

There was a faint rubbing sound from the top, but it was a long time without the sound that called her up. Chu Jinyao had been trained by the mother for a long time, and at the moment she didn't move, she still maintained her blessing steadily.

The person sitting on it didn’t know if it was satisfied or uninteresting. She lazily said, “So this is the Chu Wu girl. When the prince talked about it a few days ago, I wondered who’s a girl. The prince was tempted. When I saw it today, it turned out to be a beauty."

"Queen empress is absurdly praised. Empress is the mother of a country and the head of a hundred flowers. In front of you, it is like a fireflies and the sun and the moon striving for glory, how dare a courtier be a empress."

After Xiao Qi smiled softly: "It turns out that I'm still a talking person, get up."

"Xie Niangniang." After thanking him, Chu Jinyao slowly stood up, taking advantage of the opportunity of getting up, her eyes scanned the room imperceptibly.

She was a little surprised when she saw it this way, it turned out that there were still so many people sitting inside. Surrounded in the middle is naturally the famous Xiaoqi Empress. Since she entered the palace, the holy favorite has been unfailing for more than ten years. What's more, she can persuade the holy master to intervene in the situation of the previous dynasty, which is really a powerful character. child.

In the past, Chu Jinyao had only heard of Xiaoqi in folklore, and now he saw a real person, and then he knew that the rumors were true. Empress Xiao Qi is indeed a beauty. Her cheeks are about the size of a palm, her eyebrows are delicately trimmed, and the corners of her eyes are sharp. Empress Xiao Qi is not a glamorous beauty like Chu Jinyao imagined, but a little beauty with exquisite features and quite aura.

In fact, only such a "spiritual" beauty can seize the emperor for more than ten years.

There were a few young women sitting next to Xiao Qi. Seeing that their hair buns were girls who were not out of the pavilion, coupled with their gorgeous clothes and expensive headdresses, Chu Jinyao easily guessed their identities.

Probably this is the sister of the prince, the princesses of the Dayan Dynasty.

Chu Jinyao suddenly became a little curious, wondering who the prince looks like? Looking at these princesses, they all have soft and fresh looks. Why is the prince so fierce and beautiful?

Chu Jinyao didn't dare to delay after recognizing the identities of the remaining people, and immediately saluted the princesses: "I have seen your Royal Highness."

Among them, the princess with the most beautiful eyebrows and the most gorgeous dress turned her head and was talking to the other princess without paying attention to Chu Jinyao. Another round-faced princess nodded slightly and smiled, and said to Chu Jinyao: "Hurry up, please, soon you will be our sister-in-law. Wouldn't it be a mess if you salute us again?"

"How dare you. I'm just a white person now, I don't dare to be presumptuous."

The round-faced princess smiled and said: "Well, I can't tell you." She looked at the other two princesses who were talking to herself, and still said softly and softly: "The future sister-in-law is here, don't you come over and talk? "

The other two princesses, mainly the beautiful princess in the red dress, converged. She was dressed in red, with golden phoenix embroidered on the corners of her dress, which was gorgeous and could almost burn others' eyes. The princess was sitting next to Xiao Qi, her expression was arrogant, her eyes were unabashedly sharp, and she was now looking at Chu Jinyao unkindly.

The round-faced princess ignored the red princess's non-cooperation. She pointed to people one by one and introduced: "This is the second princess, whose name is Qin Yan, and this is the third sister Qin Zhuang."

After speaking, she smiled slightly and said, "I am Qin Shu."

Only then did Chu Jinyao put these people on one by one. It turns out that the princess with a round face and friendly look is the eldest princess Qin Shu; the beautiful and arrogant princess in the red dress is the second princess Qin Yan, who is also the daughter of the second daughter of the queen of Qi; she was pulled by the second princess. The person who spoke was the third princess Qin Zhuang, only one year behind the second princess.

This is a bit subtle. It seems that the mother of the third princess was pregnant with the dragon seed when Xiao Qi was pregnant. No wonder the third princess looked a little afraid of the second princess. Just like just now, the third princess had the heart to talk to Chu Jinyao, but the second princess deliberately pulled her, and she did not dare to resist.

The emperor has three sons and three daughters. Today, Chu Jinyao was lucky and saw all the three princesses.

Chu Jinyao and the three princesses bowed to each other, Xiao Qi smiled and sat and watched silently, not knowing what was thinking. After the few of them had finished speaking, Xiao Qi said with a smile: "Sure enough, there is something to say between the little girls, you have stayed in front of me for so long, how can I see you in such a general life? Fortunately, a girl from the Chu family. You will be able to enter the palace soon, and when the time comes, you don’t have to be boring with me."

The temptation and threat are so strong that no one here dares to respond. Chu Jinyao lowered her head pretending to be frightened, and quickly pleaded guilty, while the other three princesses hurriedly acted like Xiao Qi and acted like a coquettish. After a while, the atmosphere eased.

After Xiao Qi pretended to be helplessly touching the foreheads of the three princesses: "You guys, you will say nice things to coax me." Then she looked at Chu Jinyao, who was worried, and smiled softly: "We will soon be a family. People, what are you scared to do? People who don’t know thought I was a man-eating monster, and actually scared a pretty girl into this."

Chu Jinyao still lowered her head, her voice trembling a little: "The minister dare not."

Empress Xiao Qi seemed to be satisfied at last. She smiled and said, "Why are you being so formal, don't stand still, come and sit."

Chu Jinyao showed a flattered look and sat down tremblingly. She sat on the round stool, only then did she feel the coolness of her back.

She was too nervous just now, she didn't even realize that her back was sweating, and she actually wetted her underwear.

Fortunately, it was a false alarm, Chu Jinyao quietly breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that showing weakness is right. She guessed that the temper of the prince is unlikely to give Xiao Qi a good face, so no matter what position Xiao Qi is from, she prefers a prince who is not high in family background, cowardly and easy to manipulate.

Of course Chu Jinyao knew that His Royal Highness was a good person. In any case, she would stand by the Prince's side. However, the problem is that the prince and Empress Xiaoqi are step-sons and stepmothers. The prince will not have any problems after confronting Xiaoqi. On the contrary, courtiers still feel that the prince is righteous and bloody, but Chu Jinyao and Empress Xiaoqi are daughters-in-law and mother-in-law. If she dares to confront the queen... …

The prince may soon have a new wife.

Therefore, Chu Jinyao can only maintain balance carefully, not only to help the prince, but not to annoy Xiaoqi empress.

Chu Jinyao thinks she has neither superb scheming nor superb acting skills. She dare not try difficult tactics such as double-sided flattery and internal and external cooperation. She can only pretend to be timid, pretend not to understand, and never be on the same stage as the queen empress. .

After Chu Jinyao sat down, Xiao Qi asked afterwards, "You just came to the capital, how are you still used to it these days?"

"Thank you, Niang Niang, for your care, arranged by the elders, everything is fine."

Arranged by the elders...really so obedient? Xiao Qi later asked: "I heard that you are about to get ready to go?"

Chu Jinyao was shocked, Xiao Qi even knew this? She immediately thought of the former Baoqing Princess, and she knew clearly. It seemed that these big figures in the capital knew her better than she had imagined.

After Xiao Qi looked at Chu Jinyao's expression, he slowly said, "Bao Qing told me the last time he came here that the person whom the prince fancy is a very beautiful and wonderful person, and he really deserves his reputation when he saw it today. I heard that the Qintian Supervisor was well-deserved. I have chosen for several days. The people I saw with you today, the more they want to bring you into the palace sooner, so that they can speak with me. Baoqing can’t be with me from time to time, and the princess will also say kiss, in front of me. Suddenly it was half empty. Fortunately, you are about to come in. Such a green girl is in front of you, and it makes people feel comfortable to look at."

However, Chu Jinyao didn't think she was really comfortable after hearing Xiao Qi's tone.

Chu Jinyao just smiled shyly, as if she didn't know how to reply, she just turned over and over again like a chariot: "Niangniang is absurdly praised."

Xiao Qihou gave a soft tut in his heart, this girl is too incapable of talking, only these few sentences back and forth. But it's okay to be quiet. Those who can talk will probably be tossing. There are too many clever mouths in the palace that can talk, and there is no need for one more. It's not as good as Chu Jinyao, who looks quiet and obedient.

Empress Xiaoqi secretly wondered, Qin Yi had been reluctant to make trouble for so many years, how did he suddenly choose such a worry-free when he was choosing his concubine?

Empress Xiaoqi still didn’t believe it, and continued to test it out: “I’ve seen you more and more like it. I wish I would take you to the palace tomorrow. I’ll tell the Supreme Master later and let him urge the Ministry of Rites and the Qintian Supervisor. , We will hold a big wedding for you and the prince as soon as possible."

Is Empress Xiao Qi showing off his influence on the emperor? Chu Jinyao wanted to tell the queen not to urge, but she couldn't, so Chu Jinyao had to lower her head and let her elders decide.

Xiao Qi smiled to see Chu Jinyao's shy look, and suddenly changed the subject without warning: "The two mothers I gave you, are you still used to it?"

Chu Jinyao was shocked and said reservedly: "The two mothers are very good, responsible and rigorous."

"How good are they to you?"

"The mother is responsible for herself, and the courtiers have benefited a lot."

"That's good!" Xiao Qi said with a smile, "Seeing that you are about to enter the palace, I am afraid that the two maids are not enough. Then, you take the four maids back from me, so that they will be good to serve you."

Still give it? And four? Chu Jinyao was really surprised this time. The two maids were already very troublesome. The queen actually fortified her with four maids? Is the queen going to take all the people around her?

Chu Jinyao felt troublesome. She smiled and showed gratitude: "Thanks to the empress empress for her grace, but there are already six maids by my side. You can't use it for me. On the contrary, she betrayed her kindness and wasted. The talents of the four maid sisters. The empress is kind, but I took the people away and it was also a talent. The mother who killed me is not available here. This is really my sin. Rather, let these four sisters stay with the empress. Serve."

"It's just four court ladies." Xiao Qi smiled, "I have people here, you don't have to worry about these. On the contrary, you have only six maids around you. You are the future princess, and the people who serve you? There should be a hundred people. You are too wronged. You can use these people first, and I will arrange them for you later."

Listening to Chu Jinyao's numb scalp, she still wanted to refuse, but suddenly found Xiao Qihou was looking at her with a smile, and there seemed to be probing in her eyes.

The queen is still testing? Chu Jinyao was startled, and immediately retracted what he was about to say, lowered his head and smiled: "It's so nice to see the empress, then I would like to thank the empress first."

Xiao Qi was satisfied after hearing this. She took Chu Jinyao's hand and patted the back of her hand affectionately: "You will be my daughter-in-law in the future. It is not bad with my daughter. Of course I have to give you consideration."

Chu Jinyao sighed inwardly, but smiled.

When Chu Jinyao entered the palace alone, when she left Kunning Palace, she was followed by four beautiful and beautiful palace ladies.

The eldest princess retired with Chu Jinyao. After walking out of Kunning Palace, the two of them walked together for a while. When passing a small garden, the princess stopped and actively invited Chu Jinyao in to enjoy the flowers.

Of course Chu Jinyao agreed. The two of them walked slowly. After introducing a few famous flowers to Chu Jinyao, the eldest princess suddenly said with a smile and sigh: "You are actually younger than me, and Ji Li hasn't passed yet."

Chu Jinyao couldn't answer this, so she could only smile awkwardly. The prince is four years older than her, and now Chu Jinyao will be at least fifteen, while the prince is only nineteen. In fact, the two of them are not too old. Why are they said by the princess like this? It's like how bad they are.

The eldest princess looked at Chu Jinyao and continued: "The prince told me gothic and let me take care of you. How about I'll be your complier after you have a few days?"

The princess is a praiser? Chu Jinyao was taken aback for a moment, and immediately agreed: "Thank you princess, I am honored."

The eldest princess pursed her lips and laughed, and that's all it was said. The eldest princess deliberately came out today because of this. As expected, after speaking, the eldest princess and Chu Jinyao stood for a while, and then went back to the palace first.

Chu Jinyao continued to take people out. Standing in line is everywhere in the palace. Obviously, looking at today's situation, the eldest princess is on the side of the prince.

In fact, the eldest princess did not ask Chu Jinyao if she had a follower, she said in a positive tone. Chu Jinyao sighed from the bottom of her heart. To put it bluntly, she was still a royal person. Even the gentle princess would not discuss it with others.

The carriage of Changxinghou's Mansion has been parked outside the palace gate, Linglong and the coachman waited on the carriage for an entire afternoon. Linglong looked eagerly, and finally saw Chu Jinyao's figure from the palace gate, exquisitely excited, but the next moment, she was stunned.

Linglong asked in a daze, "Girl, who are these?"

"The empress empress is compassionate, this is the maid she gave me."

Linglong's expression was obviously at a loss, Chu Jinyao motioned to her not to say anything, and first took the person in the car, and discussed everything when she returned to the house.

After late at night, the two maids from the empress and today's four maids all went to bed. As Linglong made the bed for Chu Jinyao, she whispered: "Girl, the four court ladies are dressed up as enchanting and enchanting. I always feel that their minds are impure."

More than impure thoughts, the empress empress's intentions are barely stated. Chu Jinyao sighed and said, "The persimmon has to be soft. The queen dare not refuse, and she can't refuse it because of me, so this is from me, forcibly putting eyeliner on the East Palace."

"Girl, what should I do?"

"What can we do? Let's take one step at a time. Now we can't move them. After entering the palace, we will solve it slowly." Chu Jinyao said, "What's more, we may not be on the defensive side. Since we are humans, we always have ourselves. If we use our minds well, there may be opportunities for reversal. How did you recite that sentence? Suspicion in doubt is more self-defeating than inward."

Linglong looked at her in surprise, her expression was too obvious, Chu Jinyao couldn't help but touch her face: "Am I right?"

Linglong sighed: "Girl, you've been like a demon these few days, and you're endorsing after a while. It's tiring to learn the rules every day. You don't want to go to the Jinshi exam, so you don't have to force yourself like this."

Chu Jinyao thought of Qi Rong, who was familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, and Zhao Lanhui, who went to school with his brothers. She felt that the road ahead was difficult and dangerous, and she was 13 years away! Chu Jinyao shook his head, still insisting: "This is what my second brother taught me. He said that I want to enter the palace. It is more effective to look at the 36 policy first."

Linglong just wanted to sigh. She had to look into Chu Jinyao's eyes solemnly, not knowing whether she wanted to convince Chu Jinyao or to convince herself: "Girl, you are a lucky person, and you will have a good life in the future."

Chu Jinyao laughed after hearing this: "Hope."

She has no foundation, no family backing, and she has to carefully toss and turn between the prince and the queen to survive. Now before she enters the palace, the queen has rewarded four beautiful maids. If she wants to divide her favors, it can be expected in the future that there will never be fewer women in the East Palace.

In fact, it can't be said that, she may not get the prince's respect, how can she be favored?

Chu Jinyao was at a loss for the future life. She was grateful to the prince and wanted to be a generous, obedient and dedicated concubine. But, what kind of woman does the prince want? Does he really need such a concubine?

As the wedding day gets closer, the anxiety in her heart becomes heavier. Without waiting for Chu Jinyao to notice, her wedding ceremony arrived.

The news that Chu Jinyao actually let the princess go out of the palace as a complier immediately caused a sensation, and the compliers in the ceremony are usually friends or sisters of women. It is obviously an extremely face-saving thing to invite the princess.

This seemed to be a signal. On March 16th, there were many people attending the ceremony of Chu Jinyao. Zhao Lanhui Xu was out of a neutral attitude and did not rashly accept Chu Jinyao. But when she saw that Chu Jinyao had invited the eldest princess, Zhao Lanhui was surprised, and immediately decided to give Chu Jinyao face, and came to join her in person. But Zhenbei Houfu Xu received Xiaoqi's order, and the two sisters of the Qi family also came together that day. The most defiant ladies in the capital will come to observe the ceremony. Her ladies smelled the direction of the wind, so naturally they did not want to lag behind and came to the house one after another.

On her fifteenth birthday, Chu Jinyao's biggest gain was not getting her hair in a bun, but getting to know many people who had never even thought of it before.

In addition to many princesses, county chiefs and other clan women, she also met a legend among the literati, the granddaughter of the chief minister of the cabinet, Fan Fan. When someone introduced her to her, Chu Jinyao almost thought she was dreaming.

It's really amazing, how could Chu Jinyao in the past think that one of her birthdays could shock so many people.

Fan Shoufu's granddaughter, Zhao Lanhui, Qi Rong, etc. are not in the same circle. After all, one is a pure civil servant, and the other is an emperor and powerful. Although the two groups of people are friendly, they may not look down on anyone in private.

However, in Chu Jinyao's ceremony, both of them were very friendly, giving Chu Jinyao the face of the future princess.

Chu Jinyao had the grandest birthday in his memory. The respected clan lady hairpins her, the royal princess stands beside her and praises her, and all the girls around are from the Zhongming Ding Shijia. The life of the future seemed to slowly open a corner to her, allowing Chu Jinyao to see what a strange world she was about to enter.

After Chu Jinyao's ceremony, more and more people in the courtroom mentioned the crown prince's wedding. As a crown prince, Qin Yi became famous early because of his bad temper. At the age of 16, he shot and killed the queen’s maidservant before the Wanjun. At the age of 17, he was thrown to the border. Now that it’s only nineteen, the civil and military officials all feel that Qin Yi has been dangling in front of him for too long, and he should have started a family long ago.

In April, the prince’s wedding was sent to the cabinet. Fan Shoufu and several other elders jointly invited the emperor to host the prince’s wedding. This memorial was quickly heard, and the emperor personally gave the ceremony's subordinates an orally in the morning: "When the crown prince grows up, the wedding should be held. The Ritual Ministry will discuss it and hear it at the Hanlin Academy."

The Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites immediately agreed, and then half of the court was in operation.

The wedding of the prince is just around the corner.

The author has something to say: The next chapter: the big wedding

"The suspicion in doubt is better than being from the inside."-From "Thirty-Six Strategies".

"As soon as the crown prince grows up, the wedding should be held. The Ritual Ministry will discuss it with the Hanlin Academy."-From "Ming Xianzong Record"